11-letter words containing s, f, e
- pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
- pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
- pre-defense — resistance against attack; protection: Two more regiments are needed for the defense of the city.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- press proof — the last proof examined before matter goes to press.
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- raster font — bitmap font
- re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- refinedness — the quality or state of being refined; refinement
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- refreshment — something that refreshes, especially food or drink.
- refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- rostovtzeff — Michael Ivanovich [mahy-kuh l i-vah-nuh-vich] /ˈmaɪ kəl ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1952, U.S. historian, born in Russia.
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.